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Caught, Cornered, and Digging In

Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

Ali Velshi, Government, News, Politics, News Commentary, Versant, Ms Now, Versant Media, Weekend News

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Georgia’s Republican Governor Gets a Taste of the Cost of Waging War Against Voters, A Brutal but Overdue Takedown of Republicanism from Inside the Party, and the Criminal Investigation Circling one of Donald Trump’s Top Congressional Allies

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0:00.0

Today on Velshi, this is what a cornered man looks like.

0:06.0

The battle over voting rights is heating up as we speak as Governor Brian Kemp wrestles with the cost of declaring war on voters.

0:13.0

We'll talk to one of the black business titans who's joined the fight against Republican voter suppression.

0:18.0

Plus, the Republican take down of republicanism that is as brutally

0:22.5

honest as it is too late. And the very latest on the federal criminal investigation circling

0:28.0

one of Donald Trump's top allies in Congress.

0:35.5

Good morning. It is Sunday, April the 4th. I'm Allie Velsche, and we begin the spring morning on a good note.

0:43.2

For the first time ever, more than 4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in a single day in the United States.

0:49.9

In total, more than 104 million Americans have received at least one vaccine dose. That's more than 31%

0:57.6

of the total population. 18% of the population is fully vaccinated. Let's keep the good news train

1:03.9

running this Sunday morning. The U.S. added 916,000 new jobs in March, nearly doubling the amount of jobs added in February, and the

1:12.8

unemployment rate dropped to 6%. But there is some not so good news. The country is still down

1:18.7

9.5 million jobs since the start of the pandemic, and the recent gains have come at a cost

1:23.8

because there's a new surge of COVID-19 in much of the country.

1:28.1

Eleven states have case increases of at least 10% in the last two weeks.

1:32.3

More than a dozen have had major increases of at least 25%.

1:36.0

Cases in Michigan have spiked a colossal 127% over the past two weeks, which Dr. Irwin

1:44.1

Redlander told me on yesterday's show could be due to

1:46.5

the new variant COVID-19 mutations in addition to more relaxed attitudes about pandemic

1:52.2

precautions. Also, in my conversation with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, he warned about the

1:57.4

confluence of the growing economy and the pandemic.

2:01.9

Certainly the numbers today were encouraging 6% unemployment rate, 916,000 new jobs in America.

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